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Trussed
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Canopy
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Futile Care
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Fenced
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The Weight of it
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Attrition
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Ingress
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Pearl
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Implode
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Extinction Story
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Journey's End
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Ordovician Folds
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Underfoot
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Crinoid Colony
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Lithosphere
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Diverse Core
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Patterns of Time
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Stratum Trace
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Crevasse
Among the Folds
Raised under the large-skied rural landscapes of Indiana, I revered the land with a distant stewardship. I cared for the surface but was disengaged with the history. Hiking through creek beds I now marvel at the ancient treasures resting on the surface or embedded in rock. The ground is an ancient ocean floor, the impressions are a memoir of once flourishing colonies, now forgotten. The works in this exhibit explore these extinct communities, the diversity of species, the enormity of time, the abruptness of demise and parallels with modern ecosystems.